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Penzler Pick, June 2001: Ridley Pearson, who has created 14 previous books, most of them offering his Dallas cop Lou Boldt, ups the ante in his newest thriller.Northern Marriage Train has been enduring a number of mishaps with their freight trains, however it isn't till they look for a freight car covered with blood that they call-in outside support. Chris Tyler was previously a policeman until he almost beat a black man to death and dropped his logo. He pushes a convertible by way of a snowstorm with the most truly effective down (he is suffering from claustrophobia) to see the shipping vehicle, when he gets another chance via a classic pal in the National Transportation Safety Board. He gets to the scene to learn that he'll need certainly to cope with Northern Partnership's own protection official, Nell Priest, a black girl who already understands Tyler's history.Meanwhile, Umberto Alvarez, the practice wrecker, is methodically working his way towards his supreme damage, Northern's F.A.S.T.